hibikir

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by hibikir 10y ago
It's true that not all developers make positive contributions, however, I think that blaming "lowering hiring standards", as the author said, is a complete red herring. There is such thing as hiring without doing even the mos
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by hibikir 10y ago
Even your modified interpretation has dangerous side effects. We can probably modify the access to computers line to only over computing hardware you own, and that probably works, but the other two lines you comment on are often in oppositi
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by hibikir 10y ago
A fixed amount UBI and a fixed rate tax doesn't do exactly what people want, because it is a huge tax break at the top, and a huge tax increase in the middle if we want to be revenue neutral: The shape of the curve is very different fr
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by hibikir 10y ago
Because giving people money is a better way of doing the same thing while matching people's preferences. For instance, food: Handing people a government decided food basket will not optimize for what people want to eat, or know how to
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by hibikir 10y ago
The union isn't necessarily going to protect you here either: Your coworkers would also be union members, and you'd just be moving the discussion to a different place that calls favorites too. Do the union reps like you more than
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by hibikir 10y ago
Professional organizations have a lot of other, unintended negative consequences that make me want to stay the heck away from them. Also, nobody guarantees that the professional organizations themselves would be ethical. The AMA lobbies for
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by hibikir 10y ago
There's plenty of reasons to think that. For instance, it's well studied that people value leisure time at the same time as everyone else does. Having your time off disconnected from that of your social circle causes a lot of isol
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by hibikir 10y ago
I don't know about Uber, but I've worked at a lot of places that had sensitive data. A common patterns is to fail to treat employees like attackers, and protect data in ways that are very beatable by a motivated employee. Some exa
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by hibikir 10y ago
I interview people remotely all the time. We allow people to go through Coderpad or something like that, but in practice, I always suggest screensharing. The reason I suggest this is not that I am interested in the rest of their computer: I
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by hibikir 10y ago
Transaction processors also face fines if the dispute percentage is too high. They don't have forbidden business lists just because they don't like pornography or sex toys. They can also be defrauded by merchants too: Make a fake
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by hibikir 10y ago
Maybe in places that started well: I have no doubt that there have always been people out there that were doing system administration and could code. The places where I have seen DevOps become popular are those that completely separated pro
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by hibikir 10y ago
Social media is deceiving in both directions: I have worked with a lot of nobodies and with big names with 10K+ twitter followers. Some of those well known programmers know a lot of trivia about obscure parts of computer science, but that d
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by hibikir 10y ago
How many people with industry experience did you talk to about this before you kickstarted? The hobby game industry is very accessible: Go to the right convention and you get to talk shop with people with decades of experience printing and
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by hibikir 10y ago
Not belonging? Not at all. When I read that article, I see a kindred spirit who belongs doing either systems programming or maintenance programming. In the right place at the right time, that very mindset is worth a lot of money. I for one
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by hibikir 10y ago
Yes it is, but it is not everywhere, and it completely goes away on consulting. Suddenly companies are a lot less interested in 70 hour weeks when they cost almost twice as much as 40 hour weeks. Older, wiser developers often end up contrac
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by hibikir 10y ago
The way startups run today and the way compensation is often structured just makes startups a bad deal economically in the best of times. Imagine for a second that you become employee 10 in a new startup that you believe in. You dedicate it
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by hibikir 10y ago
If stores are helped by free parking, then we should be able to leave the parking space to the market: Let retail real state builders decide how much parking space they need, and let them act in their own best interest. However, that's
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by hibikir 10y ago
I'd be very surprised if shared self driving cars lead to a major reduction in excess parking, or lower the number of traffic jams. People want to do the same things at more or less the same time: Having time off while your social circ
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by hibikir 10y ago
It isn't, but that doesn't mean that any random change will fix it. Your argument is then as follows: 1-We must do something 2-{This} is something 3-Therefore, me must do {This} You won't find many of us arguing against the f
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by hibikir 10y ago
>This is why, I think, shyness cures itself as we move through life (for many if not most people). We come to realise that a) we don't matter as much as we think to the other person, and b) sharing our thoughts and feelings helps ot
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by hibikir 10y ago
I do a lot of work outside of an office too, but I don't care about the battery life advantages. For my workloads, battery life is already terrible in a modern MBP, because all those great battery gains from the last 10 years are real
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by hibikir 10y ago
Companies stop growing all the time: it happens all the time, and no company grows forever. A stock price is not just the value of a company's business today: It has future growth and risk priced in. What the stock market has been sayi
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by hibikir 10y ago
True, but we are having a lot less IPOs lately: We see companies with valuations well in the billions, venture backed, that aren't IPOing. We are seeing non-public companies writing contracts with dual-trigger RSUs because options have
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by hibikir 10y ago
Here in the midwest we have a lot of houses that wound not qualify as McMansions at all, but that are just as car dependent as a huge McMansion: There is no town to go to, or if there is, the area around it is full of incredibly expensive h
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by hibikir 10y ago
There are many kinds of fraud with different patterns. Some have a lot to do with what you sell, but others can affect anyone that takes credit cards. For instance, fraudsters that have received a bunch of stolen credit card numbers will wa
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by hibikir 10y ago
There are conferences specializing in giving rookie persenters chances. KCDC, for instance, takes chances on a lot of new people every year. Another good way to start is user groups: Many will let anyone speak as long as they claim to have
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by hibikir 10y ago
That only exists in San Francisco. Anywhere else, we are pretty much blind without cheating tools. Besides, the Sightings system is only helpful in areas with high pokestop density: Without it, the system wouldn't help: There are ZERO
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by hibikir 10y ago
The issue is that some people can spend just enough hours to make it LOOK like they really understand enough, when in practice, they have wide breadth, but not anywhere enough depth to do the job well. When the startup becomes mid size, sud
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by hibikir 10y ago
I think the most important point here is that no place with more than a handful of employees will be perfect for everyone they hire, and the bigger the place, the bigger the internal environmental differences. I've worked at places whe
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by hibikir 10y ago
Joel is a manager, and Dan isn't. Management often believes that they understand hiring, and that their mechanisms for examining performance are good. If Joel believes that one of his employees is fantastic their requests will be heard

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